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I have come across a book that claims that alterations
and augmentations to GPL works can be kept close-source
as long as these are not redistributed into the wild.
Therefore, customizations of websites deriving from
GPL packages need not be released under the GPL and
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Let's say I write some code, which we'll call X. It uses some GPL code, let's call it library Y. Clearly I would have to release X with a GPL license. That's fine. My question is, can I additionally release X under a license such as MIT, so that if someone only wants X but not Y they don't need to…
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I understand that linking to a program licensed under the GPL requires that you release the source of your program under the GPL as well, while the LGPL does not require this. The terminology of the (L)GPL is very clear about this.
#include "gpl_program.h"
means you'd have to license GPL, because…
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There has been much debate over whether or not merely linking to a piece of code makes it a derivative work. I know FSF says "yes", so according to them I can't dynamically link a non-GPL compatible program to a GPL library and distribute the whole. But I could do that for private use, as long as…
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I've recently run into some argument with a person that claims to be a lawyer (I have my suspicions about this not being completely true, though).
As far as I know, copying even one line of code from GPLed program into proprietary body of code requires you to release the whole thing under GPL, if…
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while i am able to convert a specific page of a PDF to a PNG like so:
gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sOutputFile=gymnastics-20.png -dFirstPage=20 -dLastPage=20 gymnastics.pdf
i am wondering if i can somehow use ghostscript's JOBSERVER mode to process several…
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When I run ps2pdf I get the following error messages:
norman@host:~$ ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf
While reading gs_dbt_e.ps:
ERROR: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:
(gs_cidfm.ps) 1 --nostringval--
Execution stack:
%interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue…
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Hello,
i am using the ghostscriptsharp wrapper for c# and ghostscript. I want to generate thumbnails out of pdf-files. Further Information on the sample-code are given here.
There are different Methods imported form the ghostscript-c-dll "gsdll32.dll".
[DllImport("gsdll32.dll", EntryPoint = "gsapi_new_instance")]
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Hello, I'm using SCO Unix, with old version of ghostscript (7.7). When I convert the postscript source file to pdf otput file, It's content is visible on the SCO machine. But when I copy the pdf file into windows, and open it with adobe acrobat, all I can see is a blank page. Does anybody have a solution…
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I am using Ghostscript to convert a multi-page pdf to individual jpg files and can get it to output the files numbered like page_%03d.jpg but it always starts at page_001.jpg and i need it to start numbering the output files starting from page_000.jpg.
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